A flaming object plunged from the sky over Chicago Thursday night and apparently landed in Lake Michigan. Coast Guardsmen, police, and numerous witnesses said they believed the object to be a meteor. For a time the object in the lake was thought to be a plane, and fire department and Coast Guard boats were sent to look for survivors. But no wreckage was found. Chicago airports said no planes were missing or overdue, and no distress calls had been received by radio. There were reports along the lakefront from Gary to Glencoe of persons seeing an object falling into the lake.

Two Chicago policemen, Frank Leverenz and Nick Di Gioia, said they were driving on N. Lake Shore Dr. when they saw "something shoot across the drive sending out sparks and flames."They said it fell into the lake about a mile east of Addison St. The Daily News received calls including one from a young woman who said she was walking her dog near W. 63d St. and S. California when she saw an object in the sky that looked the size of "a basketball and trailing a trail of sparks and flames." Men in the control towers of O'Hare and Midway Airports and Meigs Field also reported seeing the object.

Many persons along Lake Michigan’s shoreline last night reported seeing a flaming object over the lake, which authorities said apparently was a meteor.Persons from Glencoe to Michigan City said they saw the flaming object. Many thought it was a plane falling into the lake. But an observer at the Meigs Field control tower and two Town Hall policemen who saw the object said it appeared to be a meteor.But reports by numerous citizens that they saw red lights in the lake about a mile off Addison Street sent the Coast Guard, Navy, and police and fire department on a search. They found nothing. They said the lights apparently were from the water crib off Wilson Avenue.

North America – United States, Illinois & IndianaLake Michigan Latitude 44-00-00N, Longitude 87-00-00 W (D-M-S)Glencoe, IllinoisLatitude 42-08-06N, Longitude 87-45-29 WMichigan City, IndianaLatitude 41-42-27N, Longitude 86-53-42 WReference: The National Gazetteer of the United States of America, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Washington, D.C., 1990